Saturday, October 1, 2011

Obama declaring executive privilege. When Hitler ordered the blitzkrieg on Poland, he didn't ask his generals what tactics they were going to use.


White House sends Hill Fast & Furious docs, but withholds some.

The White House sent another installment of documents to Congress on Friday detailing White House staffers' knowledge about the controversial "Operation Fast & Furious" gunrunning probe run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.

However, the chief counsel to President Barack Obama, Kathryn Ruemmler, indicated that the White House was withholding an unspecified number of internal e-mails exchanged among three National Security Staff aides.

"These internal NSS emails are not included in the enclosed documents because the [Executive Office of the President] has significant confidentiality interests in its internal communications," Ruemmler wrote in a letter to House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The letter, posted here, was obtained Friday by POLITICO.

The latest batch of 102 pages of records partially duplicated information previously sent to Congress and didn't appear to include any smoking guns showing that White House officials were aware that the operation involved allowing hundreds or thousands of guns to flow essentially unimpeded from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels.

"As today's production makes clear, none of the communications between ATF and the White House revealed the investigative law enforcement tactics at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to let guns 'walk,'" Ruemmler wrote in response to a letter to Issa and Grassley sent to National Security Adviser Tom Donilon earlier this month.


The White House now admits, "Yeah, we knew about it. Yeah, we talked about it. Yeah, we briefed our superiors about it. But we didn't KNOW guns were being walked." Of course, we cannot know that until we get all the internal emails, now can we?

I have only one other comment on this ridiculous "defense":

When Hitler ordered the blitzkrieg on Poland, he didn't ask his generals what tactics they were going to use.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe it is time to change the "GunWalker Man" picture.

Anonymous said...

Now its a "gunrunning probe" ? I thought it was a botched sting...

Uncle Al said...

"As today's production makes clear, none of the communications between ATF and the White House revealed the investigative law enforcement tactics at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to let guns 'walk,'" Ruemmler wrote in response to a letter to Issa and Grassley sent to National Security Adviser Tom Donilon earlier this month.

"As today's production makes clear, none of the communications between ATF and the White house that discuss gun-walking to boost US-to-Mexico gun trafficking numbers will ever see the light of day, not if we can help it."

There. I fixed it for you, Tommy.

Anonymous said...

Most "transparent ever"!

I call BULLSHIT! Someone get some rope!

Cocked, locked and ready to rock!

Hammerhead out!

Anonymous said...

Hammerhead nails it. Bullshit indeed. It's very transparent, of the fact that they are covering up.

Short ropes and tall trees.
Dixie

Da Curly Wolf said...

In other words the White House won't release those documents so they can have time to alter them. So Obama can protect his bony ass.

Mark Matis said...

For Anonymous at 9:51 AM:
There are OTHERS you're going to have to take care of first, before you have ANY chance of dealing with these. Will anyone even bother to admit that?

Anonymous said...

Obama works for Ayers, among others. This is right up their alley, isn't it?